Thirty pieces is all it took
to throw Jesus under the bus.
Judas was more than just a crook;
he was was controlled by seething lust.
The one thing he could never brook
was letting money gather dust.
He was concerned to always cook
the books to build up his own trust.
Yet, in my life I too must look:
Is there a vice on which I'm hooked?
“Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests, And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver. And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him.” – Matthew 26: 14-16